Mennonite Weekly Review

Feb. 13 issue

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  Iowa Supreme Court sides with Mennonites in steel wheels case

  DES MOINES, Iowa — The Iowa Supreme Court unanimously ruled in favor of a group of Old Order Mennonites on Feb. 3 in a case involving their use of steel wheels on tractors.

  Mitchell County had passed an ordinance barring vehicles with steel wheels from driving on paved highways, punishable with a fine of $500, 30 days in jail or both, possibly with the addition of costs to repair the road. The county spent nearly $16 million paving roads since 2009 and passed the law to protect the investment.

Feb. 6 issue

• PBS film on Amish made with respect (preview included)

  A landmark documentary on Amish faith and life will debut on PBS at the end of February. The two-hour film is a production of American Experience, television’s most-watched history series.

• Honduran Mennonite pastor murdered

  Rafael Erasmo Arevalo, 42, a Mennonite pastor in Honduras, was attacked and killed after leading an evening worship service in Veracruz on Jan. 22.

• MCC staff in Pennsylvania dealt layoffs

  As Mennonite Central Committee’s five-year revisioning and restructuring process ends, dozens of employees, many of them in Akron, Pa., will lose their jobs.

• Hope for future trumps angst, guilt of the past

  CHICAGO — Nelson Okanya cried out to God to grant desperation to the North American Mennonite church.

• MennoMedia looks to do more with less

  Successful books and new strategies are stoking optimism that MennoMedia is making the years of financial crisis in Mennonite publishing a thing of the past.

• Vincent Harding considers what we need to do now to prepare for a multiracial democracy

  ELKHART, Ind. — Vincent Harding suggested we are still on the march to a multiracial society at the Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrations at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary Jan. 16-17.

• Theologian warns of accumulation seduction

  HARRISONBURG, Va. — Beware of seduction by accumulation. That was one of the issues explored by Walter Brueggemann, a world-renowned Old Testament scholar, in talks to as many as 700 people gathered at Eastern Mennonite University Jan. 16-18.

• MCC relief reaches Somali refugees who may not be going home any time soon

  AKRON, Pa. — When MCC representative Dan Leonard visited Dollo Ado refugee camp in late December, he was struck by the reality that the 150,000 Somali refugees who found safety and food in Ethiopia were not going home any time soon.

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